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Announcing "Feature Pack 2007" For XP Embedded

Thursday, 13 July 2006 by Michel Roth

The Windows XP Embedded team has been extremely busy the last 4 months working on a feature pack for XP Embedded and they're just about ready to loop you into what we've been doing by giving you early access to the product in the form of a Technology Preview (not quite a Beta).

The most interesting aspects of this Feature Pack are:

� New EEFs! Such as File Based Write Filter and Registry Filter.
� USB Boot! Yes, this is native USB Boot capability in XPe!
� Enhancements to EWF and Hibernate Once Resume Many
� Many of the bug fixes you've been asking for in the Tools (such as Target Designer, CMI, Import Framework, SLX/XML usability)
� New command line tool that replicates Target Designer, enables you to script your builds and much much more!
� Tons of work on component dependencies to reduce footprint (including removing dependencies to the full "Internet Explorer" component)
� New configurable UI to common components to simplify offline configuration of images
� New components added to the database to address more Application Compatibility challenges
� New macro components to allow installation of other Microsoft technologies in your runtime
� All security patches for XPe-SP2 rolled up to the Feature Pack repository.

This page has participant information, which allows you to enroll for the Technology Preview.

Read more here.